Amphibolidae

Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.

Amphibolidae
A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Amphiboloidea
Family:	Amphibolidae J. E. Gray, 1840
Genera
See text.
Diversity[1]
4 genera, 12 species
Synonyms[2]
Ampullaceridae Troschel, 1845 Salinatoridae Starobogatov, 1970

This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.^[2]

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)^[3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.

Genera

Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include:

• Amphibola Schumacher, 1817^[1]
• Lactiforis Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007^[1]
• Naranjia Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007^[1] - with the only one species: Naranjia swatowensis (Yen, 1939)^[1]
• Phallomedusa Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007
• Salinator Hedley, 1900^[1]

Genera brought into synonymy

• Ampullacera Quoy & Gaimard, 1832: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
• Thallicera Swainson, 1840: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817